Wow… first post. What an undertaking. It’s one thing to create a blog and build on your own based on your own ideas and content. However, this site by design is the exact opposite. How can you build a blog with the help of other people when you are currently an army of one? So many thoughts. So many ideas, yet, too many of them require a readership and audience to be on target for the experiment. We aren’t at page 1… we are at negative 6.
When we talk about the actual story, not some beta, or alpha version, how should it be built? Should we start easy, or jump right in with a complex and twisting story? I think by nature the whole experiment will be complex and ever changing. Perhaps we just start and see what happens, shall we? We need a main character, or two. Also a setting; place and time, along with some simple thematic directions so we have a sense of what is going on. I guess perhaps we just start with that.
But how does one start with that if there is no audience yet to help drive the train. Seeds can’t be planted if there is no soil to place them into. So it seems we are in some sort of twilight zone paradox of a writer’s block-not-block. Maybe we establish mini stories and go from there. The initial idea(s) will have to be generated internally, and due to current available reach, the input and sway of the “masses” will be very, very small. This is o.k. This is how it grows. Maybe we don’t officially launch an interactive story experiment “beta” until we have amassed a following of 50 readers or so. Then perhaps the “real” experiment will launch with 150 readers or something. I dunno. Either way it wont start until I start, so now I’ll stop so we can start.
-BB
